Work. Online. (Zoho Employees On the Loose)
Disclaimer:Zoho is CloudAve’s Sponsor. But I can’t help having fun with this vid, originally published @ FakeOffice. Besides, it’s the weekend.
Zoho Project Integrates With Google Apps – A Smart Move?
When I wrote about Manymoon few months back in my Living in the Clouds Series, I mentioned Google is not offering a Project Management App along with their Google Apps Office Productivity Suite. Many Google App users were handicapped by the absence of a Project Management app that is integrated with Google Apps. This is […]
Crunchpad Hitting the Market by the End of 2009?
In what we pray is not another view into vaporware hardware, rumors are abounding this morning that the much anticipated Crunchpad will be available by the end of 2009. This is definitely a hope and pray issue as we have seen this rumor before in July, August, September and now October. The only sure guarantee […]
Google Had an Outage: Let's Not Blame Cloud Computing This Time
Every time Google has an outage the press immediately jumps on the idea that somehow cloud computing itself is to blame. This is a wrongheaded viewpoint, because it is not simply a cloud issue, it is a total systems issue, much like anything else that has to do with any computing, outages happen anywhere in […]
Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel
I’m not a huge user of presentation software. I’m blessed to not work for a corporate and hence don’t have to justify my existence with a 40 slide deck resplendent in 12 point text and bad transitions. Yup – it’s fair to say I’m not a huge fan of presentations…. A little while ago I […]
1984 or Panopticon
Image via Wikipedia Zoli brings up an interesting point about USA search and seizure of electronic systems at the border: there is always a way around any restriction put in place. What makes this always interesting is that with the modern cloud computing environment, all you really need is a computer to act as your […]
T-Shirt Friday #1 – Zoho
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with […]
SlideRocket – More Than Just Presentations
I had a briefing yesterday with SlideRocket, the company that “provides premium communication tools through innovative and compelling software-as-a-service to let you present the right message, to the right audience, at the right time. SlideRocket gives everyone the power to make great presentations, communicate effectively with colleagues, impress customers and captivate audiences.” I spoke to […]
There Is No Way Microsoft Can Kill Google Or Zoho
When Microsoft announced the release of a lightweight web based Office suite along with Office 2010, pundits were busy calculating the hit it will have on Google’s marketshare in this space and, also, writing an obituary for companies like Zoho (disclaimer: Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is my independent opinion). I […]
What I Expect From MS Office Web
I have zero interest in Microsoft Office 2010, the PC product. The last Office I bought was 2003, and I don’t need more: done installing and forever updating bloatware on several computers just to keep productive. Yet I am watching the Office 2010 related news this morning, for what it means to Web-based computing. The […]
1000
Today we hit a major milestone at CloudAve: this is our One Thousandth post. I thought the best way to celebrate is to publish our Top 10 list compiled by you, dear Readers. So here’s the Top 10 most read post @ CloudAve: Netbook or Notebook? It’s Not Only About Size Steve Jobs Panic – […]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it […]
Mohammed, the Mountain, Google and Zoho (Oh, and Microsoft Sharepoint, too)
If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain. Legend says when the Founder of Islam was asked to give proof of his teaching, he ordered Mount Safa to come to him. When the mountain did not comply, Mohammed went to to the mountain, raised his hands and thanked God […]
Adobe Releases Spreadsheet SaaS Application And Adds Premium Version
After pushing RIA strongly for sometime, Adobe decided to embraced SaaS format (in their own way though) and they released Adobe Buzzword after they acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind the Buzzword app. Buzzword is built on Flex framework and offered through a web browser. The release of Buzzword exposed the dilemma faced by Adobe […]
Another Telco Goes Cloudy
I have a friend who works within a telco on strategy who has an oft-repeated mantra that telcos were the original SaaS vendors – monthly billing, consumption based billing, accessible support (OK this is perhaps debateable) and rapid scalability all parallels nicely with what we see as part and parcel of SaaS. It’s therefore sensible […]
